Terence Crawford vs. Jermell Charlo at 154.

It ain't happening.

Jermell's getting KO'd by Clenelo at 168 and there's no way in hell he boils down to 154 again. Maybe if they meet at 160.

 

What the...

 

Never rated either Charlo that highly, good athletes with fast hands and decent power as well as good height and reach but in terms of skills they are pretty basic. They haven't even learned to counter punch. Despite the difference in size I think Crawford beats Jermell.

I can see the excuses already, he was drained coming down from Canelo or Canelo ruined him. But in reality I doubt we see it happen, he'll duck Crawford for as long as he can, just like Spence did.

 

Thank you. That's exactly what's gonna happen. Once Charlo gets his ass whooped by nelo (hey, you can't blame him for going for the payday) they'll say he's damaged goods.

 

What if Jermell loses to Canelo then beats Bud at 154?

 

You can't really expect Jermell to come back down to 154 no matter what happens in the Clenelo fight... It would be like Kell Brook going back down to 147 after fighting GGG at 160.

 

It depends how much weight he puts on for Canelo. The ony place I could see the Bud fight is at 154 and it would be Undisputed vs Undisputed. Think about it, Jermell could have TWO Undisputed vs Undisputed fights in a row and both would be box office gold.

 

One thing to remember is that when Jermell Charlo beat Castaño he was recognized as being P4P material. But since then he's dropped out of most P4P lists and other fighters had big wins and broke into the rankings replacing him. But if you know your boxing you know that Jermell is easily P4P Top 10 based on his last performance. And lets face it, Spence may have been rated #4 P4P but he was exposed as not being P4P material. Thats not to take anything away from what Bud accomplished on Saturday, he's a great fighter and he gave Spence a beating and did it in brilliant fashion. Bud is arguably P4P #1 after that performance, but . . . Hindsight 20/20 and given what we know now, Jermell Charlo is a much better opponent than Spence, particularly after the car wreck. I had Spence P4P before the car wreck but as Roy Jones very accurately pointed out, you're never the same after a car wreck that bad. And there was a lot of internal wounds inside Spence that rose to the surface on Saturday night. His psyche, approach to fighting, and his whole confidence level was affected by the car wreck.

Like people now wanna crown Bud P4P #1, and I get it, he looked every bit P4P #1 against Spence. But if we're gonna compare opponents, Jermell Charlo is a much better fighter now than Spence is. So if Canelo beats Jermell Charlo, many casuals will try and discredit the win for Canelo saying Jermell is an easy win, due to the weight, etc. But if you know your boxing you'd know that Jermell is stylistically much more difficult for Canelo or Bud than Spence was for Bud, and he's much more dangerous as a puncher. Spence's punches had nothing on then, he hit Bud clean multiple times and Bud barely even felt them. Spence provided no resistance whatsoever. On the contrary, if Jermell connects to you clean, you gonna feel it and you might go down.

I'm sorry but a lot of people don't understand this. They wanna crap on the Charlos for what happened with Plant and Jermall, for all this stuff Jermall is going through. Ya'll don't realize that Jermell Charlo is a problem for anyone. Canelo, Bud, anyone. And I'm not trying to hype Jermell up for Canelo or any of that. I'm telling you straight up, he's a problem for Canelo and he would be a problem for Bud. If Canelo beats Jermell (who should be P4P himself) that's a much better win than Bud over Spence, given what we know about Spence and how he performed. Win lose or draw whatever happens against Canelo, if Jermell can drop back down to 154 to fight Bud and make the weight safely he'll give Bud hell and it will be Bud's toughest opponent by far.

 

Crawford ****s him up no doubt about it.

 

You wrong bro. Jermell Charlo gives Bud all kinds of problems.

 

No he doesn't you're on his nuts cause he's fighting your man crush next. He's nothing but food for Bud.

 

You wrong. I addressed that accusation in the previous post. It has zero to do with wanting to hype him up for Canelo. I've rated him for years long before he was planning on fighting Canelo. If you payed attention you'd know that.